Prevent audio files

[pancake]

We are a school and want to prevent some un-supervised PCs from being able to play music on them. (XP SP2)

Does anyone know of a nice and tidy way that I can prevent users from playing audio files such as MP3 ?

I could do this in a very messy way - e.g. removing windows media player and removing file type associations, disabling cd-rom drives .... the list goes on, and our kids are inventive. If there is a way to do it, it will be found!

I need an on or off solution that is easy to reverse if we change our mind.

Thanks.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Remove/disable the sound cards..
(Silent music is not very enjoyable - Unless you are John Cage, of course )






To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[Rick998]

I haven't tried it but I assume you can use the 'Group Policy Editor' (gpedit.msc) to define a 'Software Restriction' policyy.

Create a new 'Path Rule' pointing to C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe and set the security level to 'Disallowed'.

If you want to stop ALL sounds, mute the volume then create a new 'Path Rule' pointing to C:\Windows\System32\sndvol32.exe and set the security level to 'Disallowed'.

Hope this helps...